Jmechy said:
Jmechy said:
C-O-N-Spiracy, are we thinking of the same speech? It's just the same rhetoric Bush has been pumping out the entire time. Didn't he promise a lot of this years ago and fail to deliver? Why is a bad track record better than a clean slate?C-O-N-Spiracy said:
"Important programs for comprehensive school reform, rural education, dropout prevention, school counseling, training teachers to use technology and a program to provide resources to reduce class size were all eliminated from Bush's FY 2004 budget. Each program was part of Bush's own No Child Left Behind Act."
"Bush Medicare plan increases drug costs for low-income seniors. Under the new Bush Medicare legislation, the poorest 6 million American seniors lost their federal eligibility for Medicaid, exposing them to substantially higher drug costs. They will face higher co-pays on drugs -- and that will increase over time as prices are allowed to rise an estimated 10 percent per year. The plan also allows providers to limit drug coverage, meaning seniors might actually lose coverage under the law."
Number of jobs lost in the private sector since Bush took office: 2,931,000
Come on, he doesn't even try to logically back up that prediction. It's just a pure and simple case of using emotions and fear to attempt to control people that are easily influenced. Anyway, he's sure pissing off countries left and right. So, there are probably more angry potential terrorists... then they go on TV saying how bad our intelligence is? In my opinion, that's pretty much asking to be attacked.
I'm amazed at how he can say that with a straight (no pun intended) face while trying to write a ban on homosexual marriage into the Constitution. The United States of America was founded by a big mixed group of social/political/religious outcasts and, since the beginning, one of the most important aspects of this country has been its tolerance of all kinds of people... so long as their actions don't harm anyone else. Our laws were not copied from any specific religion. Our laws are based on ideas that were around long before the Bible. Sure, Christian laws may sound good from a Christian perspective but they are disrespectful to people of other religions (or people that lack religion). Homosexuality may not be right in my eyes, but I have no authority to impose my will upon people that do not share my beliefs. Whether or not they are allowed to marry has no tangible effect on my life, or that of anyone other than themselves. Now, if gay marriage involved human sacrifices or lynchings... that would be a different story.
Last I heard, the plans he proposed to help get us off of "foreign sources of energy" won't start to go into effect for 10-15 years. It's just an empty promise to seem more environmentally concerned. He just makes the promises while the later administrations will be left to sweat the details and do all of the dirty work.
The government has the authority to tax because taxing is the only effective way the government can fund all of the necessary projects. We're in a huge deficit because Georgie kept spending money while cutting taxes and going to war. A lot of his projects are significantly underfunded... yet he wants to cut taxes even more? Right now, we can't just keep cutting taxes and expecting things to magically get better. We are spread too thin as it is. If we are going to stay in Iraq (or similar wars in the future) we need to at least temporarily increase taxes somewhat to pay for the war without cutting into money designated for use in education/healthcare/etc.
DarkStar said:
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